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OTTAWA — About 280,000 would-be immigrants, stuck on a waiting list of people who applied to come to Canada more than four years ago, were told as a result of the recently passed federal budget to start the process from scratch.
The move hasn't garnered the sort of blaring headlines that accompanied the shrinking of public service jobs, alterations to environmental oversight or boosting the age of eligibility for Old Age Security. But like those actions, it is about more than just budget numbers.
The 280,000 had sought to come to Canada under a federal program for skilled workers, and while they may have met the criteria when they first applied, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney believes many of their qualifications are no longer relevant.
So he plans to refund the $130 million they paid in application fees, then send them to the end of the queue.
Bill C-38, the budget bill, aims to help transform Canada's immigration system into one that is faster, more flexible and geared towards young people with strong language skills, Canadian experience and credentials in demand. But behind the changes are real people, with whom Postmedia news has been in touch via email.
Here are some of the would-be Canadians pondering the prospect of starting anew:
- Jian Liu, 34, Beijing, China. Senior commercial manager CMA CGM Logistics.
Single when he first applied to come to Canada five years ago, Liu has since married and now has a daughter who is nearly two. With Canada set to toss his application, any immediate plans to expand his family have been halted under China's one-child policy.
Liu says he came to Canada initially in 2003 as an international student and earned an MBA from Vancouver Island University as well as a diploma in business development from the University of the Fraser Valley. He spent time in Toronto, then returned home for personal reasons. He still has friends in both Vancouver and Toronto.
He passed a language test with high enough scores to support his application for permanent residence and both he and his wife are taking French on weekends, costing $1,500. His wife works as an account manager at a U.S. electronics manufacturer. He's also among 900 applicants who sued the Canadian government for failing to process applications in a timely manner, even before C-38 passed.
He says he passed up a chance to immigrate to Australia or the U.S. a couple of years ago and avoided purchasing a bigger house in Beijing once he had a family, thinking they were leaving. Since then, real estate prices in that city have skyrocketed.
Last words: "We are not refugees, we are not old people . . . We have good education background and can speak English. We have international working experience and know the bridge/connection between Canada and China. As well as, we have money to support our life in Canada. We have children to be new generation of Canada . . . Think about that Jason, the King of Canada."
- Mandy Xue, 45, Guangzhou, China. Hotel event sales manager. She oversaw Prime Minister Stephen Harper's China visit in February:
Xue has been waiting five years to come to Canada. She hopes to reunite with a niece in Edmonton and cousins in Toronto, particularly for the sake of her 20-year-old son, Chu Qi, who she says was very close to his cousins as a boy.
She has worked in the hospitality industry for 15 years, while her husband owns his own logistics company. Her son is a sophomore, enrolled in a $3,000-a-year e-commerce program at Central China Normal University, which has a co-op program with Medicine Hat College in Alberta. She sold one of their apartments for about $65,000 to help pay for the Canadian portion of his education but was hopeful the family would be settled in Canada by the time he was to study here.
She says she has also spent more than $7,000 on English lessons, about $1,500 on an immigration consultant and another $145 on a Canadian lawyer to fight the elimination of the backlog. She learned about the provision in Bill C-38 through a web forum and has since participated in two protest demonstrations in Hong Kong.
Last word: "CIC should take the responsibility of wasting our time. If you want to reject us, you should have told us years earlier so that we can make another plans or choose another country. Does Jason Kenney realize how cruel it is to destroy people's hopes and dreams? That's totally inhumane and immoral . . . Jason Kenney is more like a bully. He is a minister of anti-immigration!"
- Rakesh Das, 35, Krishna Nagar, West Bengal, India. High school biology teacher:
Told it would take five years to process his file when he first applied to come to Canada in October 2007, Das was devastated when he learned — "like a thunderbolt from the blue" — that after all his preparations, the Canadian government was going to throw out his application.
"Lured" by Canadian government ads that "painted a rosy future" for newcomers based on support for human rights, he says he'd been looking forward to a better life for himself and his aging mother. He took out a loan so he could hire an immigration consultant for about $2,000 to help navigate the paperwork; spent about $250 for language testing; and even shelled out to get his educational transcripts certified.
He says his occupation was deemed no longer in demand back in 2008, and questions why the government didn't just return his application four years ago. If it had, he could have taken advantage of an opportunity to move to South Africa or Australia and would likely have been "settled down by now," he says.
Last word: "Dear Minister. Please be humane to think kindly as many lives are at stake. We want to be a part of Canada and contribute to the economic development of Canada. Be kind enough to give these applicants a chance to show their mettle before rejecting them outright."
- Yiming Jiang, 30, Huang Gang, China. Production supervisor, cosmetics company:
Jiang applied to become a permanent resident under the Federal Skilled Worker Program in December 2007. Single, he planned to come alone and shelled out about $2,400 for an immigration consultant.
He considers himself a "persuasive salesman" and quick learner who is versatile and capable of adapting easily, though he worries his occupation is not among those Canada needs to fill labour market gaps.
He learned on the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website about the plan to eliminate the backlog, and has since become something of an activist. He spearheaded a petition against Bill C-38 as well as protests in Hong Kong and has mobilized applicants to fight the move in court. He is among 900 litigants who earlier sued the government for failing to process applications in a timely manner.
A reluctant "leader in this resistance," he says the "anxiety and pressure" is like nothing he's ever experienced and he fears for his own fate should the battle be lost.
Last word: "China is such a stressful place, nobody want to show up in front of the embassy in Beijing with me, and I have fear that my behavior will irritate the government too, because so many people told me it's dangerous . . . I feel dreams can easily be broken, and it hurts to know that there is one more thing in this life that is not to be trusted, and it hurts to know that Canada is totally a different place from what I have learned. And after you've made such great effort for something for so many years, it proves to be in vain eventually. That hurts too."
- Qilin (Irene) Liao, 42, Chengdu, China. Accountant:
Liao first applied to come to Canada six years ago when her son was 11, in the hopes he would be able to receive a western education. He's now 17 and instead received a visa months ago to study in Australia. But the backup plan has effectively split their family. She's now living in Melbourne with her son on a guardian visa but it means she can't work and her husband, under Australian law, must stay behind in China to support them.
It's the first time the family has been separated for so long and Liao says she feels like a "drifter" due to their temporary status. It also means high international student fees and insurance costs that would not have been an issue had they become permanent Canadian residents five years ago.
She and her husband, a manager at an automation engineering company, looked forward to running their own business in Toronto and had been preparing financially and emotionally for the move by studying English more aggressively and getting up to speed on lifestyle, culture and community issues through the Internet.
She's says she does not believe she will qualify if she re-applies, due to her age and occupation, and feels that had she known in advance that the queue was being dissolved, she would have considered another country before she turned 40.
Last word: "I understand we are not welcomed by Canadian government any more as most Canadians claim the immigration is just our privilege, not right . . . The only thing I may never understand is why Canadian government had been lying to the applicants, that the applications would be processed all the time. I should say, as a politician, Mr. Kenney is a brave man. So brave to eliminate the backlog of 280,000 worldwide. As a man, the representative of Canadian government, a coward, unable to take responsibility of the wrong immigration policy."


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THE SPORTS DOCTOR- Guillen's gaffe: Revenge vow can backfire big time
In The Godfather, when Michael Corleone decides to whack Carlo, he doesn't say, "Watch out, we're gonna whack you." Instead, Michael tells Carlo he'll call his wife, puts him in a car, then has Clemenza garrote him– this all after Michael assures him they won't kill him.
Like anyone with any sense, when Michael Corleone had a dirty job to do, he didn't give the game away beforehand.
When Ozzie Guillen made the decision to retaliate against pitchers who hit White Sox batters, if he had wanted to be smart about it, he probably would have kept it to himself. Instead, Guillen decided to lay his cards on the table.
"If I see someone hit my player, and I know they hit him on purpose, it's two guys going down. I don't care if I get suspended," Guillen said.
Not exactly subtle.
Guillen's animosity is understandable, considering Cleveland pitchers hit three Sox players last Saturday. And it was the fourth time in eight games Paul Konerko had been beaned. But to come right out and vow retaliation?
Who does Guillen think he is, Inigo Montoya? One can't go around spouting revenge and expect any good to come of it, especially over a pitch.
Being hit by a pitch is nothing new. Hugh Jennings holds the all-time record for being hit by a pitch. How many? Try 287 pitches between 1891 and 1903.
Getting hit is so common that baseball rule-makers actually figured out four instances in which taking a base isn't called for. In fact, there are so many subtleties in pitching that most times it's nearly impossible to determine when a pitcher is intentionally hitting a batter, no matter how time-honored the tradition may be.
It may not seem fair, but chin music is as legal as stealing a base. Pitchers can purposely throw balls high and tight, nearly brushing the batter's chin, with zero repercussions. Pitchers use chin music to keep batters from crowding the plate. But the distinction between a brush back and a bean ball is slim to none. What's the difference between grazing a batter's stubble or catching him on the chin? Centimeters? Millimeters?
Even a plunker, a pitch that hits a batter's back, is up for debate. Getting hit by a ball like that could be intentional on the part the batter rather than the pitcher, thereby falling into one of the categories in which a base isn't taken– if a batter's back is in the strike zone when it gets hit by the pitch, it's just too bad for him.
The thing is, it's up to the umpire to determine what does and doesn't constitute intent– it's not Guillen's job to establish whether a pitcher is vicious. And even if a pitcher does mean to hit one of Guillen's players, what is there to do about it? Storm the opponents' locker room like Prince Fielder? Hurl a Molotov cocktail toward the other dugout?
In the American League, there's no fair way to get back at a pitcher. For those who have wondered if the designated hitter rule has a downside, there it is. Pitchers never bat for themselves in the American League like they do in the National (a reason there isn't as much plunking going on in the NL). So the only thing Guillen could do, barring anticipatory action, is take out his vengeance on an innocent player.
Apparently that's Guillen's plan. Taking revenge on an innocent is done all the time (hitting another pitcher with a ball is bad manners– it almost never happens), but not in such a vocally preemptive way. With Guillen's threat on the table, imagine what will happen if Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle accidentally tags somebody on the elbow. He'll be benched in a heartbeat. What if Guillen wants to argue a call at home plate? Good luck with that one.
There's no way Guillen's big mouth won't cause his team more grief than they already have. It's one thing to confront an umpire once in a while, but it's quite another to threaten and bite one's thumb at every team in the league, the umpires union, and Major League Baseball.
By issuing a vendetta, Guillen made himself and his team look like thugs– and believe me, the White Sox better watch their backs. After all, like the old proverb says, "He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself."

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Hours after the release of iOS 6 on Wednesday, quite a few folks began noticing that their newly upgraded iPhones and iPads were having trouble staying connected to WiFi networks. The behavior was odd, too—after selecting the WiFi network to which you wanted to connect, iOS would spin for a bit and then produce what looked like a WiFi captive portal log-in window, except the actual webpage displayed inside that window contained nothing but an Apple-styled "Page not found" error.
Fixes abounded—one popular one which originated from a MacRumors forum post and was picked up by Gizmodo and others suggested turning on auto HTTP proxy resolution in the iOS WiFi network settings. This appears to have produced middling success, but it didn't help everyone.
The behavior eventually cleared up as quickly and as mysteriously as it started. Was it a stealth iOS update? Can Apple alter your device's settings remotely without your consent? Should we all don tinfoil hats?
The answer is a bit more mundane. As pointed out on Twitter by @tylerc and echoed by our own Senior Apple Editor Jacqui Cheng, the root cause of the problem was a combination of iOS's default behavior of connecting to a WiFi network, coupled with some trouble on Apple's end. When iOS attaches to a WiFi network, it checks to see if that network requires additional credentials by attempting to access this file on Apple's website. If it sees the file, iOS knows it has Internet connectivity and it will remember that WiFi network. If it can't see the file, iOS assumes that the network requires some additional form of authentication (like a user name and password, or a WiFi access code).
To understand what happens next, consider the behavior of most password- or code-protected WiFi networks. When you try to access any webpage at all, you're redirected to a login screen, called a captive portal page. There, you put in some form of credentials, and after that you're passed on to the Internet in general. iOS assumes that if it can't get to its Apple-hosted success.html file that you're being redirected to a captive portal, and so it displays the Web server's response in a special "Log in" window separate from the Web browser.
This is fine, but things kind of fell down yesterday. The success.html file was missing or otherwise unavailable; if you tried to hit its URL directly with a Web browser, you were redirected to Apple's generic "Page not found" 404 error page (which you can see by typing "http://www.apple.com/" into your browser's address bar, adding some nonsense characters after the trailing slash, and hitting enter). iOS was interpreting the Web server's 404 redirect as the same kind of redirect a captive portal would produce when you're redirected to it on a protected WiFi network, and was dutifully displaying Apple's resultant 404 page, nicely wrapped in its standard captive portal "Log in" window. Because no successful "log in" was possible, iOS would interpret the network as an invalid or inaccessible one, and wouldn't remember it and wouldn't connect automatically. Wash, rinse, repeat.
The problem behavior manifested for several hours, it appeared, but Apple eventually addressed whatever issue caused success.html to be missing in the first place, and sanity returned.


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University Behavioral Concerns Team - Interim
|University Behavioral Concerns Team
|Campus Environment
|Health, Safety and Welfare
Approved December 1, 2011
University Behavioral Concerns Team Chair, 328-9297
|Related Policies
Faculty Manual, Part V., I, Y, Disruptive Academic Behavior: Disruptive Academic Behavior
|Additional References
Office of Prospective Health ; Behavioral and Concerns Team Threat Assessment and Intervention Resource Material (manual --Available from Team chair)
1. Introduction.
The University Behavioral Concerns Team is established to receive, collect, consider, and advise upon information on behavior of concern exhibited by a student or group of students, faculty or staff member, or unaffiliated persons to the campus. The Team is advisory only and does not have authority to impose requirements on students, faculty, staff or other persons of concern. The Team members are selected for their expertise and are trained in threat assessment. Within strict parameters of confidentiality as explained in this regulation, the Team reviews all available relevant evidence, speaks with the individual of concern as appropriate, and makes recommendations to affected University departments and thereby serves as a source of interdisciplinary advice to administrators. Based on their training and expertise and the serious nature of the concerns and potential outcomes, their assessments and recommendations must be strongly considered and promptly acted upon. The Team supports all departments and individuals on campus and evaluates any individual of concern, including undergraduate and graduate students of the University, faculty, staff and other persons of concern.
2. Reporting.
Members of the bet356体育在线 community should report any situation involving a member of the campus community that could result in harm to anyone at the University.
2.1. Imminent Threat.
If such a situation appears to be an imminent threat to safety and security (such as violence to others) it should be reported immediately to the bet356体育在线 Police Department by calling 911.
2.2. Other Threats.
Any situation of concern not deemed to be imminently dangerous, yet still of concern, should be reported to bet356体育在线 Cares at (252) 737-5555, through the online reporting form located at //ecucares.ecu.edu/#behaviorsofconcern, or to the UBCT Chair at 328-9297.
3. Objective, Process and Resources.
3.1. Objective.
The Team will use investigation, reasoned risk analysis and recognized threat assessment techniques, and recommendations for the provision of supportive intervention services through the development and proposal of individual action plans, when needed, to maintain a safe environment for the University community.
3.2. Referrals and Intake.
Information about individuals of concern that does not rise to the level of an imminent threat should be forwarded to the UBCT Chair by faculty, staff, and students.
3.2.1. The Team encourages referrals by phone, by email, in person or through the bet356体育在线 Cares website from any individual or group of individuals who has concern about a member of the campus community.
3.2.2. If the Team receives information that is more appropriately addressed and processed by another campus entity, the Team will not conduct a risk analysis, but will forward the information to that entity.
3.3. Materials and Reports.
In addition to drawing on the knowledge of the Team members, the Team may utilize the opinions and reports from other University personnel or outside independent professionals, such as physicians and licensed psychologists or psychiatrists, in an effort to obtain a better understanding of an individual situation.
3.3.1. Examples of members of the campus community that the Team may seek out for interviews or reports include roommates, close friends, family, past and current instructors, coaches, Residence Advisers (RAs), supervisors, and colleagues.
3.3.2 At times the Team may request permission from the individual of concern to review past medical or psychological records or care providers' reports as part of its evaluation process.
3.3.3 The Team may recommend independent and/or on-campus medical or psychological assessment by licensed professionals in an effort to obtain the most complete information on which to base its recommendations.
3.3.4 The Team may recommend ongoing or interim reports by such professionals as an essential monitoring aspect of the individual action plans.
3.4 Procedures.
3.4.1 The Team meets regularly during the Fall and Spring semesters and as needed in the summer.
188.8.131.52 The Team will also meet on an emergency basis as needed to review reports concerning disruptive, inappropriate, and/or threatening behavior exhibited by individuals of concern.
3.4.2 Upon receipt of a referral or report about an individual of concern, the Team conducts a risk analysis to determine if it will recommend a finding that the individual poses a threat to the University community. The Team considers:
220.127.116.11 the reported behavior (including any communications about intent to harm or plans for an attack, access to or interest in weapons)
22.214.171.124 the individual's past performance, including history of violence and past disciplinary/behavioral problems
18.104.22.168 contributing factors such as: past and ongoing medical or psychological conditions; documented disability; known existing stressors, and if there is an existing support system
3.4.3 The Team determines the level of risk presented by the behavior of concern by assessing the initial concern, and a review of additional corroborating evidence, any history of concerning behavior, and other relevant information as deemed appropriate.
3.4.4 Based on this determination, the Team develops an intervention plan with strategies to address the identified level of risk, which is recommended to appropriate administrators. The Team will recommend a plan of action based on its judgment and belief that it is more likely than not:
18.104.22.168 that the recommended plan will have a positive effect on the individual of concern, reducing the threat to the University community; and
184.108.40.206 the plan presents the best available option under the circumstances for both the individual of concern and the greater University community.
3.5 Details of Intervention plans.
Intervention plans may include, but are not limited to, recommendations such as the following:
3.5.1 Referrals to resources and appropriate on- and off-campus agencies
3.5.2 Mandates for Center for Counseling and Student Development or external psychological evaluations (for students)
3.5.3 Meetings with the Office of Students Rights and Responsibilities (for students)
3.5.4 Voluntary or involuntary withdrawal (for students)
3.5.5 Consultation with unit administrator or other appropriate supervisor about effective strategies to address the behaviors of concern
3.5.6 A timeframe for updating the Team on the progress of the intervention plan (i.e. update weekly, in two weeks, in a month, etc.).
3.6 Monitoring and Follow-up.
3.6.1 For student behavior, the implementation and outcome of the plan will be coordinated and monitored by the Student Affairs Case Manager.
3.6.2 For employee behavior, the implementation and outcome of the plan will be coordinated with the appropriate Human Resources/Personnel administrator (e.g., the Associate Provost for Personnel and Resource Administration, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences Personnel Administration) or the Director of Employee Relations and Staff Development) who will assist the UBCT Chair with advising the appropriate supervisor of the employee of concern.
184.108.40.206 The plan will be monitored through communication between the supervisor of the employee of concern and, as designated in the plan, either the UBCT Chair or the Human Resources/Personnel representative on the Team.
4 Confidentiality and Information Sharing.
4.1 Team proceedings, consistent with law and University policy, remain confidential.
4.2 To the extent allowed by and consistent with applicable laws, the Team will also determine on a case- by- case basis who, within the University or external to it, needs to be given information in order to better protect the safety of the individual of concern, the University community, and/or others.
4.3 The Team may inform the individual of concern of the intent to notify those people as a condition of an individual action plan.
5 Available Resources.
5.1 Students.
The Team is only one of several possible resources that are available to provide assistance and support. Others include, but are not limited to
5.1.1 the Dean of Students Office;
5.1.2 Disability Support Services;
5.1.3 the Center for Counseling and Student Development;
5.1.4 Victim Services;
5.1.5 Student Health Service;
5.1.6 the Pirate Tutoring Center; and
5.1.7 the Academic Advising Center.
5.2 Faculty and Staff.
The Team is only one of several possible resources that are available to provide assistance and support. Others include, but are not limited to
5.2.1 The Employee Assistance Program, or EAP, provides mental health services and support in conjunction with standard employee benefits through the State Health Plan. More information about the EAP can be obtained by contacting the bet356体育在线 Department of Human Resources.
5.2.2 Disability Support Services;
5.2.3 Victim Services; and
5.2.4 Office for Faculty Excellence.
6 Membership
6.1 The members of the Team include:
6.1.1 Director for Student Safety & Services (chair), Office of the Dean of Students
6.1.2 Associate Dean of Students
6.1.3 Associate Provost for Personnel & Resource Administration/Associate Vice Chancellor for Personnel Administration
6.1.4 Director, Center for Counseling & Student Development
6.1.5 Director, Disability Support Services
6.1.6 Director, Employee Relations and Staff Development
6.1.7 Director, Office of Student Rights & Responsibilities
6.1.8 Director, Residence Life
6.1.9 Director, Student Health Services
6.1.10 Student Affairs Case Manager
6.1.11 Enterprise Risk Manager, Office of Enterprise Risk Management
6.1.12 Faculty Member, Health Sciences Campus
6.1.13 Faculty Member, East Campus
6.1.14 Public Safety Supervisor, bet356体育在线 Campus Police
All members of the team must have expertise in a field related to the Team's purpose, a proven record in maintaining confidentiality and ethical standards and documentation verifying completion of threat assessment training from an approved provider. Threat assessment training must be completed within 90 calendar days of joining the team.
6.2 Faculty members serving on the team will be determined by the Chancellor after consultation with the Chair of the Faculty.
6.3 Personnel Administration members serving on the team will rotate annually between the Associate Provost for Personnel & Resource Administration in the Division of Academic Affairs and the Associate Vice Chancellor for Personnel Administration in the Division of Health Sciences.
6.4 Representatives from the University Attorney's Office may serve in an advisory capacity.


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Pope on Twitter: I Bless All of You From My Heart
The Pope has officially begun tweeting from his own Twitter account (@pontifex).
At the end of his weekly general audience this morning in the Paul VI Hall, the Holy Father sent out the following tweet:
"Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart."
The same tweet was simultaneously translated into seven other languages and sent out on seven other accounts.
According to Twitter's Claire Diaz-Ortiz, just minutes before the first tweet went out, the Pope had managed to attract one million Twitter followers across all eight accounts.
This afternoon he began tweeting answers to questions on the faith that have been sent in over the past week via #askpontifex.
Msgr. Paul Tighe, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, told Vatican Radio the event was "an extraordinary moment," adding that the attention to the event within the "Twitter-sphere" itself was quite impressive: more than 2 thousand re-tweets in under two minutes.
View the Holy Father's Twitter page and follow his responses by clicking here: @pontifex.


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Questions for Steve and Bill: The D Attendees Arrive
While Walt and I will come up with our own questions for Microsoft's Bill Gates and Apple's Steve Jobs, who will be appearing in an historic joint interview at our D conference tomorrow night, I was curious what others–some tech folks and some not in the industry–would ask the tech legends if they could in this post.
With the conference starting tonight, D attendees are dribbling in, so I took the opportunity to ask some of the early arrivals (some poolside) their queries for Gates and Jobs.
Here are: Blake Krikorian, founder of Sling Media; Presto's Joe Beninato; singer/songwriter Jill Sobule; PR mavens Brooke Hammerling and Donna Sokolsky; and Paul Steiger, who retired recently as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal (his new title is editor at large).


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Simply could not have said it better than Neal Gabler [ht:cr],
Some may see this obsession with perfection as the culmination of a long trend; tiger moms have been pushing their children to be intellectual decathletes for generations. But it may actually be a reversal of an even longer trend. At the turn of the last century, the influential philosopher John Dewey saw education as a democratizing force not just in its social consequences but in its very process. Dewey believed that education and life were inextricably bound, that they informed each other. Education wasn't just something you did in a classroom to earn grades. It was something you lived.
The modern corporate university hardly resembles John Dewey's vision of education as a democratizing force. Gabler's depiction (in the rest of the article) hits the nail on the head. I often get the impression that academia is no place for activists, but Gabler demonstrates wonderfully the importance of reflection on the role of higher in our society and the roles of students, educators, or administrators, and then changing those aspects that do not harmonize with our vision of education. So, who is with me in the revolution?


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The Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA) presents the exhibit "'The Happiest Days of My Life': Searching for Utopia in Tennessee," featuring the histories of several utopian communities in Tennessee, including Nashoba, Ruskin, Rugby, and The Farm. Most of these social experiments began and ended in the nineteenth century, but The Farm, founded in 1971, continues to thrive today.
We hope to challenge the visitor with a number of questions: How should one define utopian communities? Do they develop when groups of people with similar beliefs concerning religion, politics, national identity, ideology (or a combination of these things) band together and find a common ground? What leads people to pursue certain ideals in isolation from mainstream society?
This exhibit will explore these issues and examine how and when several utopian communities in Tennessee began, developed, and modified their goals and structures. We will explore what led some communities to flourish, at least temporarily, and, more poignantly, why most utopian experiments have ultimately failed.
Map of Utopian Societies
A map of Utopian Societies before 1860 shows dozens of communities that were founded as far back as 1684. For centuries, people have sought idealistic societies based upon the common good.
An Undiscovered Tennessee Utopia!
Recently a patron wrote to TSLA seeking information about a wealthy Dutch widow, Minette Storm-van der Chijs, who attempted in 1856-1857 to purchase 450 acres of property in Tennessee for an agricultural colony. Her intention was to provide a home for orphaned Dutch youth who faced a difficult future in the Netherlands, which was experiencing an economic slump. The loss of the potato crops during the 1840s had led many Europeans to immigrate to America, beginning around 1847.
In 1857 Storm - van der Chijs traveled to Tennessee to scout for land for her project. Writing from New York State, she penned a letter to Dutch newspapers on October 14, 1857, conveying her enthusiasm for starting a new colony. Her letter reads, in part:
For the past fourteen days I have stayed again at the Frisian family (Worp van) Peyma, who received me so kindly last year. I have just arrived from my third visit to Tennessee, accompanied by an experienced engineer who I took along to get his opinion regarding my plans to develop land and start a colony. I do not regret this difficult and costly trip, because I am indebted to this man for his ideas regarding the building of a sawmill as well as of factories. In general he shared my opinion regarding the advantageous lay of the land and bemoaned the fact that the Hollanders had settled mostly in the Northern states, while the Southern states offer so much more prosperity since the growing season is longer and the harvest more abundant….If my plans to found a colony in the slave-state of Tennessee succeed, I will have the wonderful prospect that through Dutch capital and Dutch colonists, Tennessee could become a pearl in the crown of a free America. The example of free laborers will have a positive effect on the Negro population and by the ever expansion of the colony, Christian charity will gain the upper hand over the misery of slavery."
By 1859-60 a building was erected on the site, but the farm manager was killed at the beginning of the Civil War. As a result, this utopian project never came to fruition.
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Next Tuesday, February 28, Sony will be giving away the multiplayer side of Killzone 3 away for free via its PlayStation Network. Any PlayStation 3 owner with an internet connection and a PSN account will be able to sample Killzone 3 multiplayer across all of its maps, free-to-play style.
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With exhibition games starting Sunday, the "workout" phase of Spring Training is wrapping up today. I have spoken to a number of players and to a man, they praise Ron Roenicke and the coaching staff for their execution of Camp.
Brewers Third base coach Ed Sedar, and his distinguished profile that would make a chicken hawk jealous, is the man responsible for putting all the pieces together. He's the "Camp Coordinator" and he's one of the best in the business. From his eagle eye view atop the tower that sits in the middle of the four "back" fields at Maryvale Park, Sedar is the one making sure the various drills/sessions go off without a hitch. A lot gets done in a short amount of time. It looks like chaos, but it is pure art to see played out. All of the individual groups: starting pitchers, relief pitchers, infielders, outfielders, catchers, etc…use every inch of every field. Bodies are everywhere, moving in concert. What seems like complete confusion to an outsider is orderly and precise to the participants. If not, they will let you hear about it. Every player has somewhere to be and something to do.
Sedar takes input from the manager and the various coaches after each day's session, stirs it all up and serves up the "workout stew" in digestible form the next morning. His tools of the trade include his detailed schedule on a clipboard, a stopwatch and, of course, an air horn (which his multiple unofficial comical applications).
I love the large bold lettered phrase on the bottom of the sheet, "Prepare To Win!" It is there everyday for every coach and player to see and it's beautiful thing.
So, congratulations to Ed Sedar for a camp well coordinated. He is the Brewers version of an air traffic controller…with less dire consequences. Now, it's on to Phase II, the exhibition games versus actual opponents. That presents a new set of challenges. At least for us, it starts to take the shape of a an actual baseball game.
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I'm glad to hear the team is excited to get on with the "Show"! As a fan I'm certainly ready to get the season off and running,throwing, pitching,catching and last but never least as a Brewers fan, "BATTING"!! I'm particularly glad to see you haven't been lured away in Chippewa Falls we really enjoy the B.A./ Rock broadcasts of our beloved Brewers.


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What a stunning card!! Nataliya used Madison the bride and Happy Birthday Little Lady sentiment
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Nataliya - This weeks Guest Designer
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- Maryann Laursen on May 25, 2011 at 7:07 AM said...
This card is just gorgeous, and I sooo love the stamp she used too. It´s just sooo wonderful put together and looks sooo romantic, and I´m sure any little lady would love to recieve this beauty here. It´s gorgeous work.
- Sandra H on May 25, 2011 at 2:43 PM said...
Adorable card love the image, she is beautifully coloured :) Sandra H
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Princeton students bring 'Arts Alive' to NYC school children
About 130 enthusiastic New York City school children and their parents joined a group of Princeton University students at theaters and museums Wednesday for the kickoff of the University's Arts Alive program. Arts Alive is providing live arts and cultural experiences this winter for up to 10,000 youngsters from schools affected by the Sept. 11 attacks.
Giddy with anticipation, students from Public Schools 20 and 234 gathered on the steps of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, where they were matched with 10 Princeton students who had volunteered to accompany them through the museum.
Princeton senior Martha Quesada wasted no time getting acquainted with her five young charges, all fifth-graders at P.S. 20. She showed them a map of the museum so they could decide which exhibits to visit. "The monkeys are the most important," Vivian, 10, told her. "Do you want to go to the dinosaur section?" asked their teacher, Sara Joseph. "YES!" several voices replied in unison. The students are in grades one through five.
Inside, Quesada's group made its way down the "Hall of Asian Mammals," gazing wide-eyed at the exhibits of tigers, rhinoceros and monkeys. "The monkeys are hanging from trees! Look!" said Zok, 10, pointing. A walk through the "Women of Islam" exhibit prompted the students to tell Quesada what they had learned recently about the Muslim world. "The women can't show their faces," observed Vivian. "They do that because that's their religion," added fifth-grader Keiry. "They show their beauty to their husbands only."
Other students visited an exhibit on the rainforest, which delighted them and their guide, Princeton sophomore Meredith Root-Bernstein. "In one spot they showed animals that were extinct, and they showed their bones," recalled Mohammed, who is in the fifth grade.
The Arts Alive program is focused on working with school children who were either relocated or dislocated as a result of the attacks or because they are in communities that suffered an especially high concentration of those who lost their lives in the attacks and rescue efforts. The students who attend P.S. 234, located on Greenwich Street in TriBeCa, have been attending classes at other schools since the Sept. 11 attacks. This week the school's staff is preparing to move back to its regular school building. Some students at P.S. 20 lost family members in the attacks.
Princeton students have volunteered to accompany the school children and will eventually develop educational programs related to the arts events they are attending. The events will include dance, music and theater performances and visits to art galleries and other museums.
The participation of Princeton students has been coordinated through the sophomore class and the student Performing Arts Council. So far, the number of students who have asked to take part has far exceeded the number of spots available. Princeton is conducting the Arts Alive program in partnership with HAI, a New York City-based not-for-profit organization founded in 1969 to provide access to the arts for the elderly, individuals with disabilities and at-risk youth.
Also on Wednesday, a group of Princeton students took school children to the Broadway shows "42nd Street" and "Beauty and the Beast." Those visiting the American Museum of Natural History went to the Hayden Planetarium as well and viewed the film "Space Show." A few gasps could be heard from the children as they saw how small the Earth is compared to the universe. "This is so amazing," Vivian whispered to a friend. The favorite moment for many of the children was the film's simulation of a black hole. "I wish we'd gone through the black hole three times," said fifth-grader Shanea.
The museum's many interactive displays were especially alluring for the children. Zok and Vivian admired the huge dinosaur skeletons towering over them, and touched a triceratops nose horn that is 65 million years old. "Wow, dinosaurs were all over the world?" Zok asked as she checked out a globe that showed where dinosaurs once lived.
When the trip concluded, the students agreed that it had been a lot of fun. Zok especially enjoyed visiting the museum with her Princeton guide, Martha Quesada. "She's cool. I'm happy I went with her."
Before bidding her four boys goodbye, Princeton sophomore Sarah Tomkins told them, "You guys should come visit Princeton. There's kids' stuff there. You'd like it." As she waved goodbye to the children, Tomkins grinned broadly. "I haven't had so much fun in years," she said.
Arts Alive is one of four programs the University has created with a $1 million commitment to assist individuals, especially young people, most directly affected by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and to help support New York City's renewal and recovery from those attacks. For more information on the programs, click here .
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India's Viacom18 Motion Pictures is entering regional film production with a slate of movies in five Indian languages.
The studio has also appointed Jayesh Muzumdar, who is currently director of commercial affairs, Viacom18 Motion Pictures, to head its regional film business.
The initial slate includes films in Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Punjabi and Bengali. These include Tamil and Telugu remakes of Viacom18's 2012 Hindi-language hit Kahaani. The remakes will be directed by Shekhar Kammula and star Nayanthara.
Marathi titles include a 3D sequel to popular hit Zapatlela, marking Marathi cinema's first sequel and 3D film; 72 Miles, based on the commercially successful novel of the same name and directed by award-winning filmmaker Rajiv Patil; and Kumari Gangubai Non-Matric, based on a TV character.
Bengali titles include Bhitu, produced by Neeraj Pandey and starring Jeet, and Reunion (working title), produced by Sujoy Ghosh.
The slate also include Punjabi-language Bhajji In Problem, featuring Punjabi star Gippy Grewal and directed by Smeet Kang (Carry On Jatta). The film will also feature cricketer Harbhajan Singh, Honey Singh and Akshay Kumar in cameo roles.
"Foraying into regional cinema is in line with our vision for Viacom18 to have a strong presence in the regional entertainment space - both television as well as films," said Viacom18 group CEO Sudhanshu Vats.
Vikram Malhotra, COO of Viacom18 Motion Pictures, said: "We are now firmly on the path of our ambition to be a pan-India movie studio. With incremental growth coming from regional markets, Viacom18 Motion Pictures will now extend its understanding of path-breaking content and innovative marketing skills to connect with regional audiences."


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S.A. lawmaker blasts peer over immigrant rant
WASHINGTON — A San Antonio congressman Tuesday rebuked an Alabama lawmaker who said he would do anything to curb illegal immigration "short of shooting" illegal immigrants.
"Rhetoric referencing acts of violence has no place in the discussion for realistic solutions to our country's immigration problems," said Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, D-San Antonio, who heads the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Gonzalez was reacting to comments made by Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., to an Alabama television station, WHNT, which were posted on the Internet video sharing site YouTube.
"They have no right to be here. They are clogging up our emergency rooms and making our education system more expensive," Brooks said.
In the county jail in Huntsville, Ala., Brooks said, "there are far too many illegal aliens there because they have victimized Americans."
Brooks said that "as your congressman on the House floor, I will do anything short of shooting them. Anything that is lawful, it needs to be done because illegal aliens need to quit taking jobs from American citizens."
"Words have consequences," Gonzalez said, and Brooks "chose irresponsible words that reflect a hateful, dehumanizing undercurrent in the discussion on immigration."
Brooks' comments should be "repudiated and condemned," Gonzalez said, speaking as chairman of the Hispanic Caucus, which has 21 House and Senate members.
A telephone call seeking comment to Brooks' congressional office was not immediately returned.
Illegal immigration has become an emotion topic in Alabama this summer. Gov. Robert Bentley, a Republican, has signed legislation that makes that state's crackdown on it one of the toughest in the nation.
The law calls on public schools to determine citizenship of students, and for police to detain anyone stopped for questioning who cannot show proof of citizenship or legal residency.
A class-action lawsuit has been filed by the American Civil Liberties Union calling the law extreme and unconstitutional and saying it subjects all people to unlawful search and seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.
Meanwhile, the Republican-dominated U.S. House is considering several immigration bills that would strengthen border security and worksite enforcement, including making mandatory a now-voluntary Internet check on new employees, known as E-Verify.
Democrats in the Senate have introduced a DREAM Act bill that would grant eventual permanent status to immigrants who were brought here illegally by their parents but who have completed college or served in the U.S. armed forces.
"Disagreements on policies can surely be expected, especially on a topic as important as immigration," Gonzalez said. "But elected officials have a special responsibility to lead by example and not engage in destructive and hateful speech."


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In questo caso il bianco generale dell'ambiente non di dispiace affatto.
Non mi sembra affatto freddo, forse perchè mi lascia immaginare un colore meno neutro alle spalle dell'immagine, chissà.
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Creating this charming snowman is even more fun than building the real thing--and you don't need mittens to do it. All the purchased treats kids love give this frosty fellow his engaging identity.
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- Place 1 teaspoon vanilla frosting on top of each Sno Ball. Stack Sno Balls on a serving plate on top of each other to form the snowman. Cut skewers slightly shorter than the height the of snowman; insert through the center of Sno Balls to secure them. Place chocolate wafer on top to form hat brim. Place a dollop of frosting on top of one sandwich cookie; top with other cookie. Attach to wafer with frosting to create the hat. Carefully tie licorice around snowman for a scarf. Use frosting to attach M&M's for eyes, candy corn for nose, miniature chips for mouth and semisweet chips for buttons. Dust confectioners' sugar around base of snowman if desired.
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I'll be honest with you. I can see the appeal of dogs and I really love the idea of them, but when I'm faced with a real dog I'm scared. Very scared. I always have been and unfortunately think I always will be. It doesn't matter what breed or what size, until I get to know a dog I will be scared stiff of it.
When I was a kid I used to beg our next door neighbour to let her dogs come and play with me in our garden and then I'd remember how scary they were and spend the rest of the afternoon at the top of the climbing frame too frightened to come down, while two shih-tzus bounced up and down below me. My brother would be rolling around on the floor crying tears of laughter at how pathetic and deluded I was.
Things haven't changed that much. If I'm on my bike and I see a dog off its leash, I'll get off my bike and push it along until I've passed the dog. My husband will cycle on, shaking his head in despair and calling out a gentle reminder that the toy poodle busily sniffing another dog's bum isn't interested in chasing me.
These Man's Best Friend scarves by Lisa Bliss at The Graduate Collection aren't scary at all. In fact these rainbow dachshunds couldn't be scary if they tried. Look how sweet they look with their little stumpy legs.
The dachshund scarves are available with nine dachshunds widthways in mink or rainbow or with one big dachshund lengthways in turquoise or pink.
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Lisa's scarves are 100% silk, manufactured in the UK and are £90 from the Graduate Collection who champion new and emerging designers in the UK. There are also six fox head scarves to choose from.
Until I can get over my fear of dogs, one of these beautiful scarves can be my dog substitute.


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|Me, 1978 or so, looking into the future.
I've been working on an autoethnography for my PhD. Ethnography is a kind of qualitative research methodology that involves looking at people. With autoethnography you are also looking at yourself. If you want to know more about autoethnography, you could read Carolyn Ellis and Jacqui Gingras on the subject.
Because I think that context matters, I think that all researchers should reflect on who they are to be doing research, even – especially – the kind of researchers who produce pages of numbers about BMI. So I've been reflecting a lot over the four years in which I've been working on my PhD, and thinking about how I came to be here. With this in mind, I thought I'd share a little about how I got into fat. It goes like this...
I have been fat all my life, meaning that I have always been fatter than most of my peers. My family is pretty fractured and it's hard to tell how fat features there. Certainly three of my immediate family have had what they would think of as 'weight problems' and have 'done something about it,' and I have distant relatives who have been fat at various stages of their lives. I think I might be the fattest but it's hard to tell amidst all this shape-changing and self-regulation. I'm certainly the most self-accepting fat person in my family.
When I was about six or seven years old, my mum decided that something needed to be done about my body. Mum was a nurse, she was working as an administrator at a clinic at that time, and very much part of a culture of medicalisation. I think her decision to monitor the food I ate may have coincided with her own body-projects, it was certainly a part of her work of trying to pass as middle class. My first diet came at a time when we were living in a colonial ex-pat community in Hong Kong that included a lot of upper-middle and upper class people. I think she felt that she had to fit in with them, and that my fat body betrayed what she felt was the shameful truth of our class.
Mum and I dieted on and off for the next few years. Sometimes we'd follow a sheet that she brought home from work but mostly it involved periodic disapproval of what I ate and voiced anxiety about the size of my body, especially when clothes didn't fit me. In spite of all this I was a very active kid, I was a synchronised swimmer, and always running around, riding my bike, doing things. This continues to this day. So whilst I had this idea that my body was a problem, I also had an image of myself as active, someone who could do things.
I had no idea about fat politics as a teenager in the early 1980s in London, though I now know that a fat feminist movement had been active for at least ten years by this stage in other parts of the world. However, I had access to some things that enabled me to develop a critical understanding of my fatness. These things weren't directly about fat but they helped pave the way later on.
The first thing was feminism. I got interested in feminism as a young girl. In my family sex was never spoken about, and I was quite anxious by the time I reached puberty, I wanted information. I didn't know about libraries so I went to bookshops and read the sex education books there. Books on feminism were stacked nearby so when I'd read all the stuff about 'a man and a lady loving each other very much and making a baby' I moved on to much more interesting books about contraception, abortion, being lesbians, self-determination, and so on. I didn't know it but I was learning about speaking up, power, and possibilities for naming and exploring my own experience.
The next thing was a sort of queer punk. Whilst I was at school I got a Saturday job that introduced me to lots of people who were really happy to be freaks and who sneered at the straight world. Queer was not a term that had much currency at the time, but this group of people, including the heterosexuals, were very queer indeed. Some were performers, most were much older than me and everyone had lived exciting lives of one kind or another. People did things, they didn't wait for someone else to do it for them. Although everybody lived on the margins in some way, people lived creatively amidst rich communities of friends. There was always something to do, bands and clubs, I started going out and I never really stopped. At the same time I was reading subcultural literature, writers like Kathy Acker, David Wojnarowicz, William Burroughs, and this too gave me an idea that things could be different and that being different was no bad thing at all.
I left school and did A Levels and got into student politics. At the time this took the form of anti-fascist and anti-racist organising, I remember quite a bit of feminism in the mix too. The National Union of Students was still a radical body back then. We went on demonstrations and took part in discussions and conferences. Alongside this I was travelling on and off with my oldest brother who was what would now be called a new age traveller. So I had experiences of very marginal politics too, living on the road, trying to avoid arrest, a kind of practical anarchism.
Throughout all this my fatness was still seen as a problem, not only by me but by the people around me. I longed to be thin and still made attempts to lose weight, although this never came to much. I think I knew it was bullshit but I didn't have a way of articulating it until I saw members of the London Fat Women's Group talking on Wogan, a very popular early evening television talk show. This would have been in 1989. They were organising a conference, and they also made a short documentary about fat politics that was also shown on TV. I watched it avidly.
It took a while, a couple of years, for the things that the London Fat Women's Group were saying to sink in. I think I was still recovering, not just from growing up in a context of everyday fatphobia, but also other kinds of trauma. The last straw was being dumped by a boyfriend who wanted me to be thinner. I'd really had enough. But the appearance of those British fat feminists in my life showed that there were other ways of being, and my experiences as a girl and as a teenager enabled me to adopt it eventually. Given my context, it made total sense to me that fat could be a social and political identity and that there was incredible potential for the development of fat culture, collective action and intellectual activity.
I started to look out for other things. By my late teens and early 20s I had an experiential and theoretical framework for activism that made Shadow on a Tightrope and Being Fat is Not a Sin irresistible when I first came across them around 1990 or so. I started an ill-fated fat support group, did some postgraduate work about fat activism, started to meet people who were interested in similar things and who supported my fat identity, took part in a proto-fatshion modelling competition(!), wrote a book, and spent the advance on a trip to California to meet the dykes who put FaT GiRL together and attend the Dirty Bird queercore festival. Fat politics interested me initially as a solution to the years in which my body had been a battlefield, a place of restriction, blame, anxiety, but it soon became a much bigger project, something that could play off other life experiences. Fat as feminist, punk, queer, a place to which I could bring my politics, a way of understanding my life. There was no turning back.
Bovey, S. (1989) Being Fat is Not a Sin, London: Pandora.
Ellis, C. (2004) The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography, Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
Gingras, J. R. (2009) Longing for Recognition: The Joys, Complexities, and Contradictions of Practicing Dietetics, York: Raw Nerve.
Schoenfielder, L. and Wieser, B. (1983) Shadow On A Tightrope: Writings By Women on Fat Oppression, San Francisco: Aunt Lute.


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STS-98, Mission
Control Center
Atlantis' astronauts were awakened just before 4 a.m. Central time Sunday, ready for a homecoming to the Kennedy Space Center later today, weather permitting.
With the U.S. Laboratory Destiny operating in excellent shape as the newest addition to the International Space Station, Commander Ken Cockrell, Pilot Mark Polansky and Mission Specialists Bob Curbeam, Marsha Ivins and Tom Jones began to perform a series of procedures which will lead to the firing of the Shuttle's braking rockets late this morning to begin their hour-long reentry back to Earth.
There are two landing opportunities available today for Atlantis' return to Florida. The first begins with a deorbit firing of the Shuttle's orbital maneuvering system engines on Orbit 169 at 10:47 a.m. Central time, culminating in a landing at 11:53 a.m. Central time on Runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center. A backup opportunity one orbit later starts with a deorbit burn at 12:22 p.m., resulting in a 1:28 p.m. Central time landing. Weather forecasts for today are generally favorable with flight controllers watching the possibility of gusty winds in the vicinity of the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Cape. The backup landing site at Edwards Air Force Base, California was not called up for landing support today, but likely would be activated for backup landing support Monday if Atlantis' landing is blocked by the weather.
A landing on the first opportunity of the day would wrap up a journey of 4.4 million miles for the astronauts and the first Shuttle mission of the year.
Atlantis' astronauts begin their deorbit preparations at 6:50 a.m. today, configuring computers for reentry, deactivating the galley and installing seats on the flight deck and middeck. The payload bay doors should be closed at 8:07 a.m., and a final "go-no go" decision for the deorbit burn from Entry Flight Director Leroy Cain is expected about 10:30 a.m.
When Atlantis' astronauts were awakened at 3:43 a.m. today, they were approximately 408 statute miles in front of the International Space Station. On board the Station, Expedition One Commander Bill Shepherd, Pilot Yuri Gidzenko and Flight Engineer Sergei Krikalev will relax today as they enjoy another day of light activities. The Expedition One crew began its day at Midnight this morning and will go to sleep about 3:30 p.m. This is the 110th day in space for the Expedition One crew and its 108th day aboard the orbiting outpost.
Atlantis continues to orbit the Earth in excellent shape at an altitude of 237 statute miles as its astronauts gear up for landing.
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Evolutionary Spirituality
and the Edgar Cayce Work
By Lynn Sparrow Christy
Adapted from her article The New New Age: Re-Discovering the Cutting-Edge Qualities of the Edgar Cayce Work in Oct-Dec 2013 Venture Inward, members can read the full article online at EdgarCayce.org/members.
As the New Age movement picked up momentum during the last decades of the 20th century, Edgar Cayce began sounding pretty stodgy to many people. Seek a life of service; root out tendencies toward selfishness in your patterns of thought and behavior; attend to your body's health with careful nutrition, exercise, and other lifestyle choices; set an ideal that you can live by as you go about your normal life activities; form intentional groups to bolster your resolve and follow through; make a difference in your world; pray; meditate—none of these had quite the wow factor that seemed to fuel popular New Age culture. What about experiences in altered states of consciousness? What about great psychic attainments? What about contact with entities on higher planes? What about the power of stones and crystals? While the Cayce readings address all of these things and more with great depth and considerable sophistication, they were often branded as beginners' material simply because they do not emphasize the phenomenal aspect of the spiritual path.
If we take the time to look, we will find that the Cayce material is at the cutting edge of some of the most important developments on the contemporary spiritual scene. For, even as the popular explosion of New Age interest in the late 20th century was drawing increasing criticism for its tendency toward somewhat narcissistic and magical thinking, other influences were growing up alongside it. Influences that took the best of the burgeoning spiritual awakening and wedded it to science, philosophy, anthropology, and sociology. Influences that have now come together to form an expansive and promising spirituality for the 21st century that is both "integral" and "evolutionary" in the way it draws upon diverse sources of knowledge and wisdom in order to engage creatively with an evolving cosmos, world, and human psyche—a new New Age that is all grown up in comparison to its late 20th-century counterpart. And it turns out the Cayce work was there all along.
Like integralism, the "evolutionary" approach to spirituality promises to reshape the way we think about our place in this world. To appreciate its impact, it is important to recognize that evolutionary spirituality goes beyond the age-old concept of soul evolution, which casts the earth as the place where we come to learn lessons, grow, and work through our karma. From this perspective, the earth plane is often at best little more than the schoolhouse of the soul and at worst the prison of illusion that we seek to escape at the earliest possible time.
By contrast, from the evolutionary perspective, the opportunity of incarnation has as much to do with the evolution of the cosmos as it does our own development. And most evolutionary thinkers point to human consciousness as the current frontier of evolution as it manifests here on earth. The Divine Source from which we arise has an irrepressible drive to create, and we are on the advancing edge of ongoing creation. Our primary role is that of co-creator and the theater of our creative operation is here, in this three-dimensional world of form.
Lynn Sparrow Christy is a teacher, writer, and hypnotherapist-life coach. With more than 40 years' experience in both traditional and alternative approaches to spirituality and personal growth, Lynn is committed to helping today's spiritual seekers find authentic and practical pathways to growth. Her latest book, published recently by A.R.E. Press, addresses the "evolutionary" aspects of the Cayce readings with Beyond Soul Growth: Awakening to the Call of Cosmic Evolution.


text: On first impression, the witchcraft trials of the Colonial era may seem to have been nothing but a free-for-all, fraught with hysterics. Margo Burns explores an array of prosecutions in seventeenth century New England, using facsimiles of primary source manuscripts, from first formal complaints to arrest warrants, indictments of formal charges to death warrants, and the reversals of attainder and rescinding of excommunications years after the fact; demonstrating how methodically and logically the Salem Court worked. This program focuses on the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 and 1693, when nineteen people were hanged and one crushed to death, but also examines a variety of other cases against women in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.


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New Developments in Addressing Domestic Violence to Be Examined at March 25 Symposium
Practitioners, legal scholars, and advocates will discuss changing perceptions and new strategies for addressing domestic violence at the 2011 Women's Rights Law Reporter symposium, to be held at Rutgers School of Law–Newark on Friday, March 25, 2011. The student-run Women's Rights Law Reporter is the oldest legal periodical in the U.S. focusing exclusively on the field of women's rights law.
Among the topics to be covered are: ways in which innovative, holistic treatment of domestic violence cases are changing the legal and prosecutorial landscape; legal and advocacy work on domestic violence issues on behalf of historically under-represented communities; and an international survey of law addressing domestic violence.
The program is co-hosted by the Rutgers Institute for Professional Education. Pre-registration is required. The program is free for those not seeking Continuing Legal Education credit; there is a $150 fee for those seeking CLE credit – 6.0 credit hours (NJ, NY) and 5.0 credit hours (PA). Register online at http://law.newark.rutgers.edu/IPEreg.
What: "Changing Perceptions and New Strategies in Domestic Violence" sponsored by the Women's Rights Law Reporter and the Rutgers Institute for Legal Education
Who: Registration and Breakfast (8:30 – 9 am)
Welcome and Introductory Remarks (9 – 9:30 am)
Professor Suzanne Kim, Rutgers School of Law–Newark
Featured Speaker (9:30 – 10:30 am)
Casey Gwinn, Esq., President, National Family Justice Center Alliance
The Family Justice Center Movement – Holistic Initiatives in DV Cases (10:45 – noon)
Jessica Kitson, Esq., Rutgers School of Law–Newark, moderator
Hannah Pennington, Esq., Legal Director, Bronx Sanctuary for Families
Liberty Aldrich, Esq., Director, Domestic Violence & Family Court Programs, Center for Court Innovation
Adjunct Professor Gary Mitchell, Director of Litigation, Parental Representation Unit, NJ Office of the Public Defender
Lunch (noon – 1 pm)
DV in Underrepresented/Underserved Communities (1:15 – 2:30 pm)
Male Victims of Abuse (video)
Ted Farley, Esq., LGBTQ Initiative Coordinator, Urban Justice Center
Rev. Marie Fortune, Senior Director, FaithTrust Institute
Suzanne Groisser, Esq., Coordinator of Legal Services, Rachel Coalition
International Survey of DV Law (2:45 – 4:15 pm)
Liesl Gernholtz, Esq., Director, Women's Rights Division, Human Rights Watch
Fran Gau, Director of Counseling Services, New York Asian Women's Center
When: 8:30 am – 4:15 pm, Friday, March 25, 2011
Where: Baker Trial Courtroom, Rutgers School of Law–Newark


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LOVELAND (AP) Giving students two years to shoot a dozen photos seems curious in our fast-paced digital world.
Not for artist-in-residence Robert Campagna and his 13 students whose goal was to shoot 200 photos using an old-fashioned 4x5 monorail view camera.
Campagna, a photographer who teaches photography classes at Bill Reed Middle School, asked students to create their version of Ansel Adams pre-war mural project, using the same kind of camera he did.
This is walking backwards in the materials and process ... catching the early photography of the masters, Campagna said.
Campagna explained his project idea recently at a student panel discussion in which student photographers answered questions from Campagna, the audience and each other.
In 1941, the secretary of the Interior commissioned Adams to photograph national parks and other areas for inclusion in a mural project to decorate the hallways of the Department of Interior. But after Adams had taken slightly more than 200 photos, the project was stopped in 1942 because of World War II.
Campagnas students photographed black-and-white images of Loveland, chronicling well-known spots, people working at their jobs or out on the streets, and the exteriors and interiors of buildings from businesses to abandoned buildings. The students imagined what people of the future would want to learn about the citys history.
The whole idea of the project is were preserving history. Were making our own history, said Sydney Buchheister, a ninth-grader at Rocky Mountain High School who attended Irwin Middle School. Its been a project thats bigger than us.
Each student chose three photos to enlarge to be part of The Mural Project: A Portrait of Loveland through Young Eyes, an exhibit at the Loveland Museum/Gallery that will run through Feb. 3.
These pictures are printed full-frame. Youre seeing what they saw, Campagna said. It represents their artistic eye, confidence and vision.
The student photographers discussed the inspirations and challenges they encountered using a 4x5 camera to document Loveland. The camera projects images on the screen that are upside down and reversed, and it requires a drop cloth, tripod and sheet film. The sheet film, which consists of one negative per sheet, is 20 times the size of a negative for a 35-millimeter camera.
It really teaches you patience. It really takes a long time to develop what you want, said Caden Denton, an eighth-grader at Bill Reed. You had to know what you wanted in the picture.


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Augustana Receives Grant From Tennis Organization
SIOUX FALLS – Augustana has received a $5,000 grant from United States Tennis Association (USTA) Northern Adopt-A-Court program.
Jeff Holm, Assistant Director of Athletics, said the grant will go toward construction of the new Huether Tennis Centre on Augustana's campus.
The Adopt-A-Court grant supports tennis court renovation and construction at parks, schools, and college campuses throughout the Northern Section. USTA Northern, based in Bloomington, Minn., is one of 17 sections that make up the USTA and covers Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Northwestern Wisconsin.
The USTA is the national governing body for the sport of tennis in the United States and is a not-for-profit organization with more than 750,000 members. For more information on USTA Northern, visit them online.
Mike and Cindy Huether of Sioux Falls provided the lead gift for the Huether Tennis Centre. Six championship-level courts will be built on the site of the present tennis facility at Augustana. Construction on the $300,000 project is scheduled to begin this spring.
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Submitted to: Crop Science
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 10/6/2010
Publication Date: 3/1/2011
Citation: Riday, H. 2011. Paternity testing a non-linkage based marker assisted selection scheme for outbred forage species. Crop Science. 51:631-641.
Interpretive Summary: Perennial forage breeding for forage yield is a slow and laborious process. This study demonstrates in red clover how to use a few DNA markers to double selection gains at very low cost. In most current forage breeding programs only the identity of the maternal plant is known. DNA markers can be used to test plants under evaluation to determine the paternal plant. Knowledge of the paternal plant is used to greatly increase selection gains. This study will be useful to public and private plant breeders who can implement this technique to decrease variety development time. Indirectly this will lead to better varieties available to producers.
Technical Abstract: In many major perennial forage species, genomic tools and infrastructure development has advanced enough that their utilization in marker assisted selection (MAS) can be cheaply explored. This paper presents a paternity testing MAS in diploid red clover (Trifolium pratense L.). Utilizing individual plant phenotypes, known maternity, and molecular marker determined paternity, paternal and maternal breeding values are calculated and selection on both parents is accomplished. Paternity testing MAS is demonstrated in three red clover breeding populations utilizing permutation based truncation selection, for a biomass-persistence index trait. Permutation based truncation selection is accomplished by ranking parents based on 80% of total progeny per permutation. Parental rankings are then used to select among the remaining 20% of total progeny and average selection gains across all permutations are estimated. Paternity was determined from 11 SSR amplified in two PCR reactions. Paternity based selection gains alone were more than double selection gains based on maternity alone. Inexplicably, the estimated paternal halfsib family additive genetic variance was four to five times greater than the maternal halfsib family additive genetic variance. Paternity testing MAS is implementable in other diploid forage species and allopolyploid forage species with one diploid genome and corresponding genome specific molecular markers.


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"Yolanda Jones was the only adult arrested after the fight at JC Turner Field in South St. Petersburg. Jones told police she was trying to protect her cheerleader daughter who had come under attack. The coach, who is also Jones' daughter, said she joined the fight too. 'We started fighting, because that other girl didn't like my mouth,' said Darricka Maddox." [ABC Action News]
The biggest shame of all? The reaction video's good, but a 10-cops-to-break-up-fight video would've been gooder.
Somewhat related: Here's Video Of A Ref Getting Gang-Jumped During A Florida Youth Football Game